Category: Venezuela

In commemoration and tribute to the 50th anniversary of the triumph of Salvador Allende and the Popular Unity in Chile, this Thursday the International Telematic Meeting of the Sao Paulo Forum was held, with the intervention of the President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro Moros. In his speech, the Venezuelan Head of State invited all social, political, intellectual movements and scientific institutions linked to the organization, to be participants and observers of the parliamentary elections on December 6.

The Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela extended its congratulations to the World Food Program of the United Nations Organization on Friday, for having been awarded the 2020 Nobel Peace Prize. “Our recognition to your efforts, workers and managers, as well as the entire UN family”, wrote the People’s Power Minister for Foreign Relations, Jorge Arreaza, on his Twitter account @jaarreaza.

This Friday, the ambassador of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in the Republic of Iraq, Arturo Gallegos Ramírez, received at the Port of Um Qsar, located in the Iraqi province of Basra, the first batch of cattle exported from the Caribbean nation.

To the Peoples of the World Brothers and Sisters: I greet you affectionately on the occasion of informing you about the recent actions undertaken by Venezuela to confront and overcome the illegal blockade that the government of the United States of America has been imposing against my country since almost twenty years ago, with special radicalism during the last five years, causing serious effects on the normal performance of the Venezuelan economy, with subsequent impact on the population’s well-being.

In the context of the International Anti-imperialist Week, Minister of People’s Power for Defense, Vladimir Padrino López gave a lecture on the differences between the Bolivarian military doctrine and imperialist militarism. Padrino López explained that after the 2002 coup d’État, Commander Hugo Chávez made the decision to speed up a military revolution in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela in the face of forthcoming maneuvers of aggression.

In an interview with Spain’s El País newspaper, Minister of People’s Power for Foreign Affairs, Jorge Arreaza, ratified that “there is no possibility” of putting off the parliamentary elections as an European Union (EU)’s condition to send an observation mission and that the date of December 6 is immovable because it is mandated by the Constitution.

The geopolitics of sanctions, their social impact and violations against the peoples’ human rights were some of the issues discussed during a virtual seminar held on Monday and organized by the Simon Bolivar Institute for Peace and Solidarity among Peoples and the Tricontinental Institute of Social Research.

This Friday, October 2, a historic event occurred after the arrival to the homeland of the first batch of the Russian vaccine “Sputnik -V”, for phase 3 of the clinical trial against COVID-19, as part of the agreement between the People’s Power Ministry for Health (MPPSS) and the Gamaleya Moscow Epidemiology and Microbiology Research Center, thus making Venezuela the first country in Latin America to receive this vaccine.